This is an analysis of the poem The Poem Of Antar that begins with:

Have the poets left in the garment a place for a patch to be patched by me; and did you know the abode of your beloved after reflection?2
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  • Rhyme scheme: X a b X c X X X X d X e X b e X f X b X e d a g f X d X h a b X X f b e d e d f c X X c d X i X d c c X i a X g h b e i X X X c X X X X X X f b e e X g i a d b d d X j g b X c e j X aXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010010011010011110110010101010100 010001101101010101110111111 1001111101110000101010110110101110 0000100110000101000011001 1101010101101010111010010100111010101010 110111001110111100110010111010100100 1101100111011101010101000 11100100101100100110011011110010 1101000101101111100100100001011110111011011100 110011101011010010111111101101111010 11100100001010110111000001110001110110 1111101001011001100101011 1011100010011010100010010010010101010 0100111011010110110011 11101100101011111100101001001 101100110011101001 0111011001000100101001011001 110001111010001111010101 1010111001111001110101101101110110010100 0111001001110101110010001111010 100110110101010100101011100 0101101110011101001001010 1011111000101010101010111011111001 110010101010100011111111101001011 11100100101110011001101 1010011011001100110101101001111 10100111010010011010101111010111010001001101 101001011001011101101011001001011110 01100101110101001010010010100010 110010011101010101101010 101101011000110011110010101001111011 1100100100111011001000101010 11100100110010110001001101010 001001110110011101101011001111 11110100101011111111011010100101 10110111100111101100101010011 010010010001110010010101001111 010010100111101011010011101111001001011 1101101011010100101111101001010011 110101110011111010010001101 011011101001010110001100111001000110 1110100111101110011111101110001000 10111101100110000110100010010100100 11001111100111101010000111 0011000100110101101001011001010111 111111001101000110011100110110 11110110111010011010011111111001110100 110010001001011110101001010101001010011 1110101001011010111111001010010101110100011 101110101101001010001011011011010 101111010000100011010101011010010010 11110010101000011101011011011101 111010010001111001100101101101010010 111101111111100111000011100 1100101110100110010010001101000 110100011011001011001 0100110011010010100111010110010 11010001011010101100001 111101101111111010001011 11001101010111110010000111010011011100 1111001001010010010100100110111001010000 11111101001111010101110110110 1100111011111110010101010100 111011111101101100110111 01001100110010101111011111110110 11100001000100101011001100101011111100 11111111100101110010110 1110110010100100110101000110100 101111101100100101000111001101 110111001001110110000010100010010 110010100010110001010111001011001 00100100101001101001001011010001 111110010010101010010010101001011100101010110111 1110100111101101000011 10101000100101101111001000101001 111110101010110011110110010101101011101 111010111010110100111010011010011010100 10101001010111011001010 101010010101110010100011 101010010100101110010101000110010 1010111000101011011101110011011000101 101110001000010010010111011011000101 11110100100011011010101110 0111110101111010111001111111101 11000100101011000110101000111101010 101010100101001110100110111001101110 110101100110101111101011011101000110 100010111011110111111111011111 0100010101010110101000110111011010 1100110110011011100101001011 1100111111111110011101011010 011000110110101010100011110110 10110111111111001101111001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 93
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 93
  • Average number of symbols per line: 127 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 24
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in, and, to, she, you, 'ablah, her, i, at, people, as, it, on, with, verily, for, my, have, he, his, him, when, from, they, while, 'antarah, though, calling, not are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, or, at, when, they are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, or, at, when, they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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